Title: Collapsable Menus Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # Collapsable Menus * [sithicus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sithicus/) * (@sithicus) * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/collapsable-menus/) * I’m hoping to find a tutorial for collapsable menu’s that will allow me to expand and collapse a menu based on the Catagory. * ex// Main Catagory Sub Catagory Blog Post * each level would be expandable and collapsable, I’ve seen a tutoria to do something like this in MT, I don’t really care if it is a pure css or a javascript method, although of course a pure css method would be kind of cool, if anybody know where might be able to find something like this.. i would really appreciate the help, thanks * oh here is the mt tutorial showing roughly the same thing * [http://www.elise.com/mt/archives/000674expandable_list_menus.php](http://www.elise.com/mt/archives/000674expandable_list_menus.php) * thanks -chris Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 33 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/collapsable-menus/page/2/?output_format=md) [3](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/collapsable-menus/page/3/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/collapsable-menus/page/2/?output_format=md) * [gillie2tat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gillie2tat/) * (@gillie2tat) * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/collapsable-menus/#post-138612) * Yes that is exactly what I was asking for in my suggestion here. * [http://wordpress.org/support/topic.php?id=22297](http://wordpress.org/support/topic.php?id=22297) * It would certainly be reasonably easy to implement in an HTML webpage so I can’t imagine it won’t be in WordPress. * Thread Starter [sithicus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sithicus/) * (@sithicus) * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/collapsable-menus/#post-138620) * It’s ultra easy to do in html so I’m hoping someone has implimented this for wordpress. * [gillie2tat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gillie2tat/) * (@gillie2tat) * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/collapsable-menus/#post-138743) * bounce * [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/) * (@podz) * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/collapsable-menus/#post-138746) * Have a look at my site – bottom of the menu. If yes, it is detailed here: [http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/kadabra.txt](http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/kadabra.txt) * [gillie2tat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gillie2tat/) * (@gillie2tat) * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/collapsable-menus/#post-138766) * Thanks so much! * Just a quickie – where you say “In `` I have this line:” do you mean the of the index.php file? * [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/) * (@podz) * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/collapsable-menus/#post-138767) * I do, yes 🙂 * [chansop](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chansop/) * (@chansop) * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/collapsable-menus/#post-138778) * i was thinking about doing this with my menus, but is there a simple way for subsequent pages to remember what’s expanded and what’s not? * [gillie2tat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gillie2tat/) * (@gillie2tat) * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/collapsable-menus/#post-138812) * Sorry I’ve got kinda stuck with this – I followed the instructions to the letter, I thought – and now my site is sticking at the [@import](https://wordpress.org/support/users/import/) point – [http://www.craftnslace.net/wordpress](http://www.craftnslace.net/wordpress). * I am uploading .txt versions of the problem files and hope you’ll be able to diagnose what is wrong from that as I know nothing about .php. * If necessary I’ll just live with the original version but I’d really like to have the onclick dropdown menus:) * I am using the Firefox web browser on Windows XP Service Pack 2. * I did create the directory for the kadabra.js file exactly as directed – [http://www.craftsnlace.net/wordpress/T2/Hacks/kadabra.js](http://www.craftsnlace.net/wordpress/T2/Hacks/kadabra.js) if you need to review it at its location. * The .php file is at [http://www.craftsnlace.net/index.txt](http://www.craftsnlace.net/index.txt) * The CSS file is at [http://www.craftsnlace.net/wp-layout.txt](http://www.craftsnlace.net/wp-layout.txt) * Many thanks! * [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/) * (@podz) * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/collapsable-menus/#post-138813) * ` is wrong, you need something more like this: * ` * [gillie2tat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gillie2tat/) * (@gillie2tat) * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/collapsable-menus/#post-138814) * Yes that worked thank you – but the subcategories thing isn’t working, any idea why? * Also, the [http://www.craftsnlace.net/wordpress](http://www.craftsnlace.net/wordpress) isn’t displaying at all in Internet Explorer 6, just a blank screen – no error, nothing. It is however displaying in Firefox 1.0 and Netscape Navigator 7.1. * Is this a browser issue or is it something I’ve done wrong still? * [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/) * (@podz) * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/collapsable-menus/#post-138815) * I don’t know what you subcats ar so I can’t tell if they are there or not. I have 2 subcats though and they display so right now it’s hard to say. * I also see nothing in IE6, but I can’t get the page to validate – that might give the clue as to the reason. If you can change the characters it mentions: [http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.craftsnlace.net%2Fwordpress%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&ss=1&verbose=1](http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.craftsnlace.net%2Fwordpress%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&ss=1&verbose=1)( It will just want the ascii equivalent, and pasting the offending character into this page: [http://www.inr.net/tools/html-encoder.cfm](http://www.inr.net/tools/html-encoder.cfm) will give you that) and get things valid, it should be easy to find * [gillie2tat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gillie2tat/) * (@gillie2tat) * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/collapsable-menus/#post-138819) * OK yes all my subcategories are showing – if you scroll down [http://www.craftsnlace.net/wordpress](http://www.craftsnlace.net/wordpress) and look for where it says ? Categories (and I don’t know where the question mark came from!) with the dated diary entries listing, that is my Categories section. Everything above that is my Links. * Unfortunately though the page you mention tells me WHERE the errors are it doesn’t tell me WHAT they are – and as I don’t know PHP that doesn’t help me to resolve the problem I’m afraid. * Here is what I mean:- * 113: #### encoding problem on this line, not shown #### 128: #### encoding problem on this line, not shown #### 149: #### encoding problem on this line, not shown#### 157: #### encoding problem on this line, not shown #### 164: #### encoding problem on this line, not shown #### * So I’m sorry I have no idea how to resolve this or what to do next. * [gillie2tat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gillie2tat/) * (@gillie2tat) * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/collapsable-menus/#post-138820) * I have by the way checked my source code at [http://www.craftsnlace.net/wordpress](http://www.craftsnlace.net/wordpress) and on those lines it’s trying to set up the kadabra coding so I still have no idea what to do next. * [Cyndy Otty](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ceo/) * (@ceo) * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/collapsable-menus/#post-138821) * Go into your index.php and C&P the lines it’s coming up with as errors and paste them into the html encoder that Podz linked to above – what it spits out for you is what should be on the lines the validator can’t read. * [gillie2tat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gillie2tat/) * (@gillie2tat) * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/collapsable-menus/#post-138843) * OK I think I’ve figured out where things are wrong and I’m posting here in case someone else is having the same difficulty and hasn’t posted. * If you look at the index.php file in the Template section *
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